Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers Audiobook (Free)

This parenting classic on one of the very most disturbing and misunderstood trends of our time–peers replacing parents in the lives of children–is now more relevant than ever. The latest model includes new material on how social media and gaming culture are influencing our kids, and what parents can do.

In Hold To Your Kids, Dr. Neufeld and Dr. Maté explore the trend of peer orientation: the troubling propensity of children and youngsters to look to their peers for direction–for a sense of right and wrong, for values, identification and codes of behaviour. But peer orientation undermines family cohesion, poisons the school atmosphere, and fosters an aggressively hostile and sexualized youth culture. It offers a powerful explanation for schoolyard bullying and youth violence; it really is an escalating craze that has never been adequately described or contested until Retain YOUR CHILDREN. Once recognized, it becomes self-evident–as perform the solutions.